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Deep listening : towards an imaginative reframing of health and well-being practices in international development.
- Source :
- Arts & Health: International Journal for Research, Policy & Practice; Oct2013, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p238-252, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This paper challenges the “intervention-as-solution” approach to health and well-being as commonly practised in the international development sector, and draws on the disciplinary intersections between Community Music Therapy and ethnomusicology in seeking a more negotiated and situationally apposite framework for health engagement. Drawing inspiration from music-based health applications in conflict or post-conflict environments in particular, and focusing on case studies from Lebanon and South Sudan respectively, the paper argues for a re-imagined international development health and well-being framework based on the concept ofdeep listening.Defined by composer Pauline Oliveros as listening which “digs below the surface of what is heard … unlocking layer after layer of imagination, meaning, and memory down to the cellular level of human experience” (Oliveros, 2005), the paper explores the methodological applications of such a dialogic, discursive approach with reference to a range of related listening stances – cultural, social and therapeutic. In so doing, it explores opportunities for multi-levelled and culturally inclusive health and well-being practices relevant to different localities in the world and aimed at the re-integration of self, place and community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17533015
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Arts & Health: International Journal for Research, Policy & Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 90380858
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2013.827227